--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Ron Clinton"
<clinton65@...> wrote:
>
> As much as I enjoy the backwoods / swamp tales from
Brewer, Williams,
> Whittington, et al, I've never read any Caldwell. I
recognize he's
a bit
> more on the literary end of the scale than the Gold
Medal end, but am
> curious is he's worth reading? Maybe TOBACCO ROAD or
GOD'S LITTLE
ACRE or
> ???
Very worth reading. The two essential novels you mention and,
in addition, the collected short stories, available some
years ago in a handsome university press edition (U. of
Georgia Press, I think). Wonderful stories, many of them
quite tough. Today, those wonderful stories are hardly
known.
Best,
mrt
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